Teach complex sentences with this comprehensive teacher slide deck, designed to explicitly teach how authors connect ideas by combining independent and dependent clauses to create more detailed, cohesive and purposeful writing.

Built around the I Do, We Do, You Do model, this teacher slide deck provides a scaffolded pathway from explicit teacher modelling to guided analysis and supported application. Building on students' understanding of simple and compound sentences, learners investigate how complex sentences combine a main (independent) clause with one or more dependent clauses to strengthen meaning and show relationships between ideas.

These teacher slides can be used independently. Note: Where the teacher slides reference printable independent activities, these are available in the full lesson bundle here.

Through modelled examples, collaborative discussion and structured learning experiences, students identify independent and dependent clauses, explore the role of subordinating conjunctions and analyse how complex sentences express relationships such as reason, purpose, condition, concession and time.

What's included in this teacher resource?

• Two teaching options: AWHITEBUS or ISAWAWABUB (acronyms to teach subordinating conjunctions)
• Clear learning intentions and success criteria focused on identifying and constructing complex sentences
• Explicit teaching of independent and dependent clauses
• Modelled examples demonstrating how complex sentences connect ideas and strengthen meaning
• Explicit instruction on using subordinating conjunctions to express reason, purpose, condition, concession and time
• Guided analysis of authentic sentence examples
  
• Structured practice constructing complex sentences for different writing purposes
• Built-in check-ins for learning to monitor understanding throughout the lesson
  

Perfect for upper primary classrooms, this teacher slide deck helps students develop confidence in using complex sentences to improve sentence structure, textual cohesion and writing clarity, equipping them with the skills to communicate ideas with greater precision and sophistication.